Something about Tuesdays with Morrie hit me hard. I'm not sure what it is. I cant put my finger on it, and i don't know that I will ever be able to confine it to one single thought or idea. I believe it was the overall magnitude of the book that hit me. I could relate to it, but also learn from it. But i didn't have to learn from it, no message was being shoved down my throat, I could pick and choose exactly what i wanted to take from it. It is truly amazing when a book has a profound impact on you, an immediate impact. I don't think I have ever experienced anything like it. Tuesdays with Morrie made me want to improve myself. It made me want to be a better man, student, athlete, son, brother, boyfriend, person, learner, teacher, and overall being of nature. The way Mitch Albom rights is unlike anything I have ever read. It is the style of a common man. My favorite books are those that tackle tough subjects with common language. Why must a books language be difficult, the problems it expresses are difficult enough. The way Albom wrote this is perfect. It is like he just wanted to lay everything out. There is nothing underlying. Everything is out on the table. Take it or leave it. It doesn't require thought to understand, instead it plants seeds of thoughts that will be on my mind forever and I love it. You can feel, through this work, what kind of person Morrie is. It is truly amazing how through literature, you can feel like you've known someone your whole life. I felt this way. I felt as though Morrie taught me about life. However i think the biggest lesson that should be drawn from this story is that we can always improve. We can always be a better person, and we must strive every day to do so. It is not every day that words, compiled into sentences, organized into paragraphs, combined to make chapters, and place together can affect me this much. Words, simple characters, can cause the most complex being in the universe, to want to change his or her life, it is a truly incredible concept.